2.0 SCSU’s Priority Strategic
Goals for Technology

The following SCSU Priority Strategic Goal was approved by the Strategic Planning
Committee in Spring 2002. This goal, along with its accompanying objectives
and rationales (A-D), is currently undergoing campus review.

"SCSU will provide appropriate technologies and resources that
support teaching, learning, service and access. This goal is in alignment
with
the SCSU Technology
Master Plan."

A. The university will provide students and faculty with
classrooms and laboratories containing up-to-date, discipline-specific
equipment and software.

Rationale: Technology is a means to offer students a
high quality education with the skills needed to compete in the marketplace
and to make that education
accessible. Skills in most fields, from fine arts to technical professional
fields, use some form of technology, which may range from microscopes,
musical instruments, and kilns, to computers and software.

B. The university
will utilize information technology and distributed learning to support classroom
learning and to provide access for outreach.

Rationale: With demographics
changing (Data Source: Minnesota Higher Education Services Office), and job
requirements requiring ongoing
education (Data
Source: MDES), many of our new students may have time and location
constraints. Distributed
learning is one way to make education accessible for them and allow
the institution to access new markets.

C. The university will apply appropriate
technologies and resources to support teaching learning, research, creativity,
scholarship,
and service.

Rationale: Technology should support the pedagogy, learning
goals, research, creativity, scholarship, and service that remain at the
core of professional
needs and development.

D. The university will provide appropriate
technologies and resources to enhance access
to support services.

Rationale: The university needs an infrastructure to
support services for its students, faculty and staff, including human
resources
functions, e-services
and integrated business functions.